Spear phishers Target customers signing Telecom

FBI officials recently reported a new e-mail scam in which consumers who use a telecommunications company received phishing e-mail. According to the information requested e-mail recipients to visit the website of the telecommunications company through a special web-link to give some of your personal information, such as security number and birth date. But both the website and e-mail, turned out to be false, according to news published by the FBI. Government on 1 April 2010. An FBI official said that the e-mail message is actually a typical example of “phishing” in which cyber thieves trap innocent victims formal appearance of e-mails enticing them to fake websites seeking personal information. In addition, an assault even more vicious kind of phishing called “spear phishing”, which is a threat to the Internet with a high prevalence. Criminals of spear phishing not send bulk e-mail, but to select a specific group of individuals belonging to the same organization is a joint service. This may mean that individuals working in a joint enterprise, to buy goods from a single site, using a banking service in common, common to go to college, etc. Spear phishers send e-mail that appears genuine to the specific objectives and to present legitimate descriptions and some urgency. In a comment to this type of problem, security researchers said that when the cyber-crooks get personal user data, can reach his bank accounts, use their credit cards and / or establish a new identity based on the stolen data. According to Ed Skoudis, founder and Senior Security Consultant InGuardians, the last “spear phishing attack is an attack on the old is still good because it is a very specific e-mail with a malicious attachment or a dangerous web link, which leads the client side exploit, according to the news published by nextgov on April 6, 2010. The security consultant also said that e-mails deftly avoid anti-spam and anti-virus software. They refer to the attacks and fatal accident by postal mail. In conclusion, according to security researchers, spear phishing attacks can best be avoided if the user does not follow links in email messages, and typing the URL directly into their browsers. In addition, you should run an anti-Phishing filter.